Burl Ives
Acting
Biography
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Acting History
2019
My Music: A Classic Christmas
as Self (archive footage)
1994
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
as Big Daddy (archive footage)
1989
Thomas Hart Benton
as Himself
Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
TVas F.W. Woolworth
1988
Two Moon Junction
as Sheriff Earl Hawkins
1987
1986
Uphill All the Way
as Sheriff John Catledge
1984
Caravan of Courage
as Narrator (voice)
DTV: Golden Oldies
as Self
1981
Earthbound
as Ned Anderson
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
as Himself
1979
Just You and Me, Kid
as Max
1978
The Bermuda Depths
as Dr. Paulis
The New Adventures of Heidi
as Grandfather
1977
Roots
TVas Senator Arthur J. Justin
1976
The First Easter Rabbit
as Narrator / Older Stuffy (voice)
Baker's Hawk
as Mr. McGraw
Captains and the Kings
TVas Old Syrup
1970
The McMasters
as McMasters
The Man Who Wanted to Live Forever
as T.M. Trask
Night Gallery
TVas Old Man Doubleday
1969
The Whole World Is Watching
as Walter Nichols
The Bold Ones: The Lawyers
TVas Walter Nicholls
The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour
TVas Self
The Johnny Cash Show
TVas Self
1968
The Other Side of Bonnie and Clyde
as Narrator (voice)
The Sound of Anger
as Walter Nichols
Pinocchio
as Geppetto
The Name of the Game
TVas Arthur Jellicoe
1967
Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
as Phineas T. Barnum
1966
The Daydreamer
as Father Neptune (voice)
1965
1964
Ensign Pulver
as Captain Morton
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
as Sam the Snowman (voice)
The Brass Bottle
as Fakrash
The Hollywood Palace
TVas Self
Daniel Boone
TVas Prater Beaseley
1963
1962
Mediterranean Holiday
as Narrator (US Version) (voice)
The Spiral Road
as Dr. Brits Jansen
The Merv Griffin Show
TVas Self
1960
Our Man in Havana
as Dr. Hasselbacher
Let No Man Write My Epitaph
as Judge Bruce Mallory Sullivan
1959
Day of the Outlaw
as Jack Bruhn
The Bell Telephone Hour
TVas Self
1958
Lost Man's River
as Cottonmouth
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Harvey 'Big Daddy' Pollitt
Desire Under the Elms
as Éphraïm Cabot
The Big Country
as Rufus Hannassey
Fun in the Big Country
as Self
1957
The Miracle Worker
as Captain Keller
Tonight Starring Jack Paar
TVas Self
1956
The Power and the Prize
as George Salt
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TVas Self
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
TVas Jonathan J. Dwire
1955
East of Eden
as Sam the Sheriff
1953
General Electric Theater
TVas King David
The Oscars
TVas Self
1950
Sierra
as Lonesome
What's My Line?
TVas Self - Mystery Guest
1948
Station West
as Hotel Clerk (uncredited)
Green Grass of Wyoming
as Gus
So Dear to My Heart
as Uncle Hiram Douglas
The Ed Sullivan Show
TVas Self
1946
Smoky
as Willie
1940
Tall Tales
as Self